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PSA: bookwormstory.social tracking script
Hi everyone,
I've decided to include a tracking script on the site and in the name of transparency I would like to inform everyone about it. So here's that: the site, as of today, includes a tracking script.
A likely FAQ:
This lemmy instance has started picking up a lot of traffic, most of which likely isn't actual users but web crawlers.
For comparison another site I host had 98% of its traffic caused by AI web scrapers. In that case I used the tracking script to figure out whether actual usage was close to what I was seeing. While I have the access logs of my reverse proxy available to look through those are filled with federation traffic and as such not nearly as handy for diagnosing actual user traffic.
Yes, please feel free to do so. Simply block the domain analytics.neshweb.net using your AdBlocker of choice or, if you are using PiHole or similar, you can block it on a network level.
server stability issues
Hi guys has anyone noticed daily downtime with bookwormstory.social instance?
I saw on https://status.bookwormstory.social/ that the old reddit ui may have issues however I also noticed issues on the main web ui and when using third party clients (voyeger and alexandrite).
On other instances like lemmy.world I can see text but images fail to load (not sure if its running on cache).
Just curious is this due to lemmy update maintenance (hope I don't sound rude).
Future of the Instance
Before I get into this I apologize for giving you all a heart attack. Actually no, I know what I am doing with that title, suffer!
Unfortunately the main story of Ascendance of a Bookworm released its last Pre-Pub chapter last week and with it a stop to the very regular weekly discussion threads. Obviously we will have Side Stories to look forward to, however those won't provide nearly the same regularity as the main story did.
Up until now the Pre-Pub threads have been the main driver behind activity on the instance and the closure of the story then opens the question of what will happen to this place going forward. First of all this instance will likely not be disappearing. I have my only active lemmy account on here and since I have 0 real hosting costs I have no problem keeping this going indefinitely, I also think it might be an opportunity to change things up a bit. However first and foremost this is a place for you all, not for me alone, so your opinion about what should or
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If anyone wants to help then feel free to place some pixels.
PSA: Instance Update to 0.19 on Wednesday
The initial hiccups with Federation seem to be resolved with 0.19.1-rc.1. Since I also managed to test the new Version of the Mestionora Bot (it should now actually post Part 2 and Part 3 Manga discussions in parallel instead of only Part 3, hooray) I will update the instance after PrePub discussions die down a bit.
Expected Timeframe is Wednesday 16:00 UTC - Wednesday 18:00 UTC.
During the Update changes to the expected downtime can be checked on status.bookwormstory.social.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask away.
Defederation Policy Update, Adding Taglines And Vote For Spoilers in Emojis.
We want to add Taglines that will be displayed at the top of the site. We would like your help with populating it with quotes from the book. Please leave your suggestions in the comments. They should be quite brief, no longer that two sentences.
We have added some emojis to the instance but they all are anime safe. We would like to know your opinion on adding emojis that are covering characters from part 3, 4 and 5. I will leave a comment and please upvote all the option that you are comfortable with seeing.
We would like to incorporate defederation from instances that are part of censure list on fediseer.com. It would help us catch toxic instances quite early. There will also be provided reasoning why we defedarated from certain instances.
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When testing bookwormstory.social however I am unable to recieve emails (both in recieving the verification email and replies/messages).
Background context:
Lemmy.world version --> BE: 0.18.4
bookwormstory.social version --> BE: 0.18.4
same gmail account was used testing.
A silly conversation with myself (for testing)
Shortcut to auto blur images
Hi guys I made a shortcut that autoblurs a selected image, uploads it to catbox.moe, and copies the link. It also automatically uploads a unblured image in markdown syntax so you can directly paste it in post body.
Shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c17814055c3a42b78c82984049deb13d
Actions app (required for blur, its free and open source):
Send notifications to Email not working
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Around after July 30th send notifications to email doesn't seem to work.
Additonally I found the Verify your email address for bookwormstory.social prompt doesn't work.
Edit looks like this is a lemmy bug fro BE 0.18.3
Stance/Limits of cross posting art from r/HonzukiNoGekokujou to Bookworm Lemmy
Hi guys, kinda curious on what the stance is on cross posting art from r/HonzukiNoGekokujou. If its allowed (not sure if it is or isn't) kinda curious about how much cross posting would be considered to much.
Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator/Backup tool
Move your Lemmy settings from one account to another - CMahaff/lasim
A handy tool which allows you to backup your profile settings, subscriptions, blocked users, and blocked communities and port it to other instances.
Limitations:
Kinda inspired by this post:
Alternative Lemmy Frontends
Newly Available Feature since 0.18.1, now actually implemented by a couple of projects.
Additionally hosted on this Instance:
Instance Agnostic:
I will expand this list as I find or am told about more alternative UIs.
CORRS issue on 3rd party web lemmy clients
I noticed that 3rd party web lemmy apps like alexandrite.app seem to not funciton with bookwormstory.social due to CORRS. Other instances like lemmy.world seem to work fine.
Not sure if there is an environmental variable change needed to get corrs working (not sure how lemmy works under the hood).
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3191
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3109
Also as a side note vger.app (wefwef) mobile web client does work since it has a proxy function though not sure if it will be removed in the future.
federation not completely syncing
Hi guys kinda found a weird bug on some communities limited amount of content being synced.
Example voyager (only two posts synced over the course of a day)
https://bookwormstory.social/c/[email protected]
https://lemmy.world/c/voyagerapp
Example floating is fun (only new posts are syncing no prior content is syncing)
Risks of .ml domains and lemmy
Not sure if this topic fits in this community but recently my account on a lemmy instance with a .ml extension (lemmy.fmhy.ml) was rendered inaccessible.
While the instance works to a degree (I can set a dns overide to gain acess) due to the broken domain it effectivly renders my account (and the instance lost due to federation).
While bookworm is fine I worry about other instances like lemmy.ml which has the same domain prefix and hosts many communities.
Federating to other instances and nonbookworm content
Out of curiosity (this may sound silly) but is it okay to federate (subscribe) to other communities from bookwormstory.social?
Not sure if federationing to non bookworm communities increases load on this instance by a lot and accounts should be only used primarily for bookworm discussion.
Kinda curious on your thoughts on the matter